Thomas Sowell Quotes
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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If I have a tombstone when it's all over, it will say, 'He tried to connect.'
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I do believe, whenever this is all said and done, we won't talk about Mickey Gall, the guy that beat CM Punk; we'll just talk about Mickey Gall, the guy who is a top 10 fighter, a good welterweight or maybe a great welterweight.
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I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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'All stories are true,' Skarpi said. 'But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.' He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. 'More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.'
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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
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Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.
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I've enjoyed being a part of something from the beginning, when we were still finding our footing.
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We're all divine, but I was the only one who had the nerve to call myself that.
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People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
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I wouldn't trust Nixon from here to that phone.
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The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
